Watch-chain hook.



No. 764,909. PATENTED JULY 12, 1904.. J. A. BARTLETT.

WATCH CHAIN HOOK.

.APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 25. 1 903.

NO MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented July 12, 1904.

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JAMES A. BARTLETT, OF ATTLEBORO FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO MoRAE& KELLER, OF ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS, A FIRM.

WATCH-CHAIN HOOK- SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.764,909, dated July 12, 1904;. 7 Application filed September 25, 1903.Serial No. 174,547. (No model.)

To all whom it y concern: sleeve drawn up from sheet metal to form a Beit known that I, JAMES A. BARTLETT, a hollow body having the appearanceof awatchcitizen of the United States, residing at Attlechainswivel-body. The loop a is contracted boro Falls, in the county ofBristol and State near its lower end to form the ring a. One 5 ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and side of the loop is shaped toform the tongue useful Improvement in VVatch-Chain Hooks, (b and theother side carried upward and of which the following is a specification.over to form the hook (t the ends of the This invention has reference toan improvetongue and hook abutting at an angle, as ment in snap-hooksused for watch-chains or shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The sleeve 6 is con- 55similar articles. tracted at the top to form the elongated open-Snap-hooks as heretofore constructed of ing Z) in the top and has theopen lower end spring-wire only and as used for watch-chains 5 fromwhich extend the fingers b Z2 The or similar articles are weak inconstruction sides of the loop a are brought together and and unfinishedin appearance, and the tongue inserted into the sleeve Z) through thelower 60 I5 is liable to get bent sidewise or pulled out open end bawiththe side forming the hook a from under the hook. in its straightposition, as shown in broken The objects of my invention aretostrengthen lines in Fig. 3. It is now bent over to form theconstruction and improve the appearance the hook (L The sleeve 5 issecured on the f a spring-wire snap-hook, and I accomplish loop bybending the fingers 5 b inward over 5 hese objects by inclosing theshank of the the contracted portion of the loop forming q llOOk inasleeve and mechanically securing the the ring a, as shown in Fig. A.The sides sleeve to the shank of the hook, thereby preforming the tongue(0 and the hook a extend venting side movement of the tongue or anupward through the elongated opening 6 in outward movement of the tonguebeyond the the sleeve and are prevented by the walls of 7 0 3nd of thehook. the opening from moving sidewise or out- E My invention consistsin the peculiar and ward, thereby strengthening and improving novelconstruction of a spring-wire snap-hook the appearance of the hook.crand a strengthening-sleeve mechanically se- Havingthus describedmyinvention, Iclaim cured to the shank of the hook by fingers asnewanddesire tosecure byLetters Patent 75 forming a part of the sleeve andbent into 1. In a spring-wire watch-chain hook, a the lower open end ofthe shank forming the hook-shaped member having a spring-tongue ring ofthe hook, as will be more fully set and a ring, means forstrengtheningthe hookforth hereinafter. shaped member, consistingot' asleeve through Figure l is a side view of my improved which thehook-shaped member extends, and snap-hook, showing the tongue of thehook means for securing the sleeve on the hook 1 in its inward positionin broken lines. Fig. shaped member, consisting of fingers on the 2.isan edge view of the hook. Fig. 3 is a sleeve bent into the ring of themember, as $5 i1 view of the hook, showing the strengthdescribed. thing-sleeve in section and the arm forming 2. In a spring-wirewatch-chain hook, the 5 5.116 hook in its straight position in brokencombination of the spring-wire loop a shaped nes; and Fig. 4 is asectional View taken on to form the ring a, the spring-tongue a, andline X X of Fig. 1, showing the fingers on the hook a and the sleeve Z)contracted at its the lower end of the sleeve bent into the open upperend to form the elongated opening I) end forming the ring of the hook.and having the open lower end 6 from which 9 In the drawings, (6indicates a loop conextend the fingers 6 b bent into the ring a structedof half-round spring-Wire, and I) a of the hook, as described.

3. In a Watch-chain hook, the combination to this specification in thepresence of tWo subwith an engaging member, of an integral loop scribingWitnesses.

upon the lower extremity of said member, a I

body portion embracing the latter, and in- JAMES BARCLLETT' 5 turnedears upon the body portion engaging Witnesses:

the engaging member. J. A. MILLER, J r.,

In testimony whereof I have signed my name ADA E. HAGERTY.

Letters Patent No. 764,909,

granted July 12, 1904, upon the application of James A. Bartlett, ofAttleboro Falls,

Massachusetts, for an improvement in It is hereby certified that thename of the assignee in WVatch-Ohein Hooks, was erroneously Written andprinted McKee & Keller, whereas said name should have been written andprinted McRae d: Keeler; and that the said Letters Patent should be readwith this correction therein that the same may conform to the record ofthe case in the Patent Oflice.

Signed and sealed this 26th day of July A. D., 1904:.

[SEAL] E. B. MOORE,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

